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Updated: December 10, 2004, 10:57 PM ET

Curry, Chandler and Bulls would benefit from divorce

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By Greg Anthony
ESPN Insider

In the case of the Bulls, their high expectations in the preseason quickly turned into the reality of losing. What is wrong with the Bulls? The culture of losing is swallowing this franchise and all that are involved with it and personnel changes will have to be made.

I've seen it all too often: Talented players who do not happen to be leaders are expected to develop into winners. It just doesn't happen.

Eddy Curry, Tyson Chandler, Kirk Hinrich, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon are all good players individually, but collectively? Well, this team is 3-13 and painful to watch. At times, they look lost.

They're a bad basketball team and will be until they accept that the culture has to change and admit that the strategy implemented by Jerry Krause failed miserably.

You cannot build a team around two kids who are not physically, mentally, or emotionally ready to deal with the adversity and scrutiny that is the life of a professional athlete.

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